Dr. William Zinsmeister

	Dr. William Zinsmeister
	Professor
	E-mail: wjzins@purdue.edu
	Curriculum Vitae <pdf>
	Associated Website(s): Atmosphere-Surface Interactions (ASI)
Education
Ph.D.- University of California, Riverside.
Research Interests
Paleontology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, biogeography, field geology.
Teaching Interests
EAS 115 Dinosaurs
EAS 151 OIL
EAS 473 Invertebrate Paleontology
Selected Publications <More>
Unal, E. and William J. Zinsmeister, Exotic biogenic structures from the Early Cambrian of the Marble Mountains, California. Geological Society America, Abstracts with Programs, 32(7):367 2005
2004 Scarabino, F., Martinez, S., Del Rio, C., Oleinik, A.E., Camacho, H.H. Zinsmeister, W.J. Two new species of Adeloomelon Dall, 1906 (Gastropod: Volutidae) from the Tertiary of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Paleontology, 78(5):014-919. 2004
Stilwell, J.D. Zinsmeister, W.J. and Oleinik, A.E. Early Paleocebe mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and paleobiogeographic significance. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 367:1-89. 2004

Zinsmeister, W.J., Seymour Island; a look at the world 10,000 km southof Chicxulub. American Paleontologist, 12(3), 8-9. 2004
Stephen, D.A. and Zinsmeister, W.J., Systematics of the late Cretaceous nautiloids of Antarctica. 6th International Symposium - Cephalopods - Past and Present, Fayetteville, AK 2004
Stilwell, J.D. and Zinsmeister, W.J., A new gastropod mollusc, Antarctissitys austrodema gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica and its evolutionary significance. Cretaceous Research, vol.24, no.2, pp. 111-118, April 2003.
Zinsmeister, William J. Mass mortalities and mass extinctions. Lathaia, 35:20-21. 2002
Stilwell, Jeffrey, D. and Zinsmeister, William J. A new large acteonid gastropod (Mollusca) from the latest Cretaceous. Journal of Paleontology, 76:369-378. 2002
Dutton, A. L., Lohmann, K.C. Zinsmeister, William J. Stable isotope and minor proxies for Eocene climate of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Paleoceonography, 10:593-601. 2002
Zinsmeister, William J. Short-term Maastrichtian biotic events on Seymour Island, Antarctica. In, Antarctica at the close of a millennium. Royal Society of New Zealand, Bulletin 35:287-292. 2002
Witham, S.A. Krockover, G.H., Ridgway, K.D., and Zinsmeister, William J. Lessons Online, educational technology for the undergraduate geology classroom, Journal of College Science Teaching, 32:264-269. 2002
Dutton, A.L. and Zinsmeister, W.J., Stable isotope and minor element proxies for eocene climate of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Paleoceanography, 17(2), 6.1-6.14. 2002
Stilwell, J.D. and Zinsmeister, W.J., A new gastropod mollusc, antarctissitys austrodema gen. et sp. nov., from the upper maastrichtian of Antarctica and its evolutionary significance. Cretaceous Research, 24(2), 111-118. 2002
Zinsmeister, W.J. in press, Stratigrapbic Plane Analysis, A technique for analysis of biostratigraphic ranges. Proceedings of Antarctic Geoscience Symposium, Wellington, New Zealand.
Zinsmeister, W. J. 2001. Late Maastrichtian Short-term Biotic Events on Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula , Journal of Geology. Appeared March 2001, volume 109, no. 2, pp. 213-229.
Stilwell, J. D.,and Zinsmeister, W. J., 2000. Paleobiogeographic synthesis of the Eocene macrofauna from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in Stilwell J. D., and Feldmann, R. M., eds., Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eocene Rocks, McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica: American Geophysical Union Antarctic Research Series, v. 76. p. 365-372.

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550 Stadium Mall Dr
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765.494.3258
Fax: 765.496.1210